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Hans  Breitmaxn's  Party,  With  Other  Ballads.  Mio  and  enlarged  edition. 
By  Cliai-lesG.  Lelaad.  This  edition  of  "Hans  Breitmann's  Party,  and  Other  Bal- 
lads," by  Charles  G.  Lelaad,  is  near  as  lari,'e  a;,'aiu  as  the  previous  edition  issued, 
Mr.  Leland  havin?  added  to  this  edition  all  his  late  ballads,  including  "Ilaus  Breit- 
manu's  Christmas,"  "Hans  Breitmann's  Der  Freischuetz,"  "Hans  Breitmaun's 
Shtory  about  Schnitzerl's  Philosopede,"  etc.,  which  were  not  contained  in  any  pre- 
vious edition  of  tte  worlc.  It  is  published  in  one  volume,  on  the  finest  tinted  plate 
paper,  by  T.  B.  Peterson  &  Brothers,  No.  .303  Chestnut  street,  Philadelphia,  and  sold 
by  all  boolcsellers  at  Seventy-five  cents  a  copy,  or  copies  of  it  will  be  sent  to  any 
one,  to  any  place,  post-paid,  on  receipt  of  the  price  of  it  by  the  publishers. 

Please  read  the  following  Jfotioes  of  the  Press,  from 
all  sections  of  the  world,  about  it  : 

"M"  Leland  the  author  of  the  onlv  translation  of  Heinrich  Heine's  son-s  into 
En.'lisii  or  rather  American,  which  aeems  to  give  us  the  least  glimpse  of  those  path- 
etio' gibes  and  scoffing  bursts  of  woe  in  which  we  scarcely  know  whether  there  be 
most  of  iuSnite  passion  and  melody  or  infinite  hate  and  scorn,  has  recently  published 
in  the  United  States  some  lemarkable  ballads  of  his  own,  not  without  something  in 
them  akin  to  Heine's  liighter  moods  of  mischief.  Mr.  I.eland's  art  consists  in  depict- 
iiK'  in  a  racy  Gorman-Pennsylvanian  patois  the  large  inanite  appetite  for  earthly 
thfnc's  of  this  thoroughly  carnal  German- Yankee.     There  is  a  peculiar  felicity  in  the 

ad in't-ition  of  the  dialect  to  the  vein  of  character  indicated In  the  Party,  the 

ffjose  and  the  saasa.^e,  and  the  beer  and  the  fat  maiden,  prolong  themselves  in  his 
memory  in  a  sort  of  dreamy  passion  of  regret,  and  he  ends  with  a  transcendental  soul- 
vearniii"  worthv  of  Werter  or  Thackeray's.  Jeames  asking  the  abysses,  'Where  s 
ihe  heavenly-bpaming  star,  the  star  of  the  spirit's  light,'  and  answering  with  the 
profound  desolation  of  a  Pennsylvanian  Ghilde  Harold 

"  'All  goned  afay  mit  de  Lager  Bier, 
Afay  in  de  ewigkeit.' 

"  The  likenin'^  of  the  Party,  at  which  everybody  got  drunk  '  ash  bigs'  and  overeat 
themselves  like°the  same  noble  animals,  to  the  '  lofely  golden  cloud  dat  float  on  de 
mountain's  prow  '  and  to  the  star  whose  light  has  been  dissipated  ages  since;  and 
ii.rain  the  'lyrical  cry'  of  despair,  as  Mr.  Matthew  Arnold  calls  it,  with  which  the 
ballad  ends— the^e  are  stings  of  satire  which  contain  more  humor,  and  strike  deeper 
than  even  Jeames'  vulgarly  lacquered  imitations  of  sentiment.  When  Breitraaiiu's 
greed  becomes  maudlin,  the  ballads  attain  their  cVixaa.^  in.  'Ayi:'— London  Speriator. 

"Byron  would  have  deliL-hted  in  '  Hans  Breitmann's  Party.'  He  would  have  imi- 
tated it  at  once,  just  as  he  imitated  Frere's  Com  c  Epic,     The  book  is  full  of  ej>quisite 

loolia"   and  the  comic  element  is  sustained  from  the  first  to  the  last  stanza The 

idea  of  makirn'  Don  Quixote  a  German,  placing  him  on  American  soil,  and  chronicling 
his  exploits  in  the  ludicrous  dialect  of  the  American-German,  is  irresistibly  droll. 
It'would  be  impossible  to  c  jnceive  any  thing  more  genuinely  humorous  than 
some  of  these  verses.  We  have  laughed  so  heartily  while  readin,'  them  that  we  posi- 
tively criticise  with  tears  in  our  eyes The  book  has  a  kind  of  philological 

value  apart  from  its  merits  as  an  intensely  humorous  production It  is  on>  ot 

the  richest  specimens  of  Yankee  humor  since  the  Biglow  Papers."— io?Mto)i  Xm«!,3r. 

"The  hero  is  a  bit  of  true  character,  and  the  adventures  through  which  he  passes 
are  racy  of  the  soil  and  of  the  time.  But  the  oddity  of  his  figure  and  his  fortunes 
would  be  lessened  in  any  other  medium  than  its  language,  the  strange  grotesqneness 
of  which  acts  on  the  nerves  as  much  as  on  the  spirit.  The  very  effort  t  i  pron  niuce 
this  poetry  sets  one  laughing."— io?i<:ioft  Athenceam. 


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EINGWALI  tc  BROTTN,  FRS 


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Hans  Breitmann  About  Town          .  5 

Schnitzerl's  Philosopede — Pardt  Secondt,  11 

A  Ballad  Apout  de  Rowdies,  ...  23 

Wein  Geist, 25 

Hans  Breitmann  in  Politics  : 

I.  The  Nomination,      ....  28 

II.  The  Committee  or  Instruction,      .  31 

III.  Mr.  Twine  Explains  being  "  Sound 

UPON  the  Goose,"  ....  34 

IV.  How  Breitmann  and  Schmit  were 

Reported  to  be  Log-rolling,      .  39 
V.  How  TiiEY  Held  the  Mass  Meeting,  43 
v^L  Breitmann's  Great  Speech,    .         .  45 
VII.  The  Author  Asserts  the  Vast  In- 
tellectual Superiority  or  Ger- 
mans TO  Americans,     ...  51 
VIII.  Showing   How    Mr.   Hiram   Twine 

"  Played  Off  "  on  Smith,    .         .  54 


Breitmann  about  Town. 


DER  Sctwackenhammer  coom  to  down, 
Pefore  de  Fall  vas  past, 
Und  by  der  Breitmann  drawed  he  in 
Ash  dreimals  honored  gast. 
Led's  see  de  sighdts  !     In  self  und  worldt, — 

Dere's  "  sighdts"  for  him,  to  see, 
Who  Selbslanschaungsvermoegen  hat, 
Said  Breitemann,  said  he. 

Dey  vented  to  de  Opera  Haus, 

Und  dere  dey  vouud  em  blayin'. 
Of  Offenbach,  (  der  open  hrooh,) 

His  show  spiel  Belle  Helene. 
"Dere's  Offenbach, — Sebastian  Bach, — 

Mit  Kaulbach, — dat  makes  dree  : 
I  alvayS  likes  soosh  hroohs  ash  dese ." 

Said  Breitemann,  said  he. 

Dey  vented  to  de  Blbliothek, 

Vhich  Mishder  Astor  bilt : 
Some  pooks  vere  only  en  hroscJiure, 

Und  some  vere  pound  und  gilt. 
"  Dat  makes  de  gold — dat  makes  de  sinn, 

Mit  pooks,  ash  men,  ve  see, 
De  pest  tressed  vellers  gilt  de  most  :" — ■ 

Said  Breitemann,  said  he. 

(5) 


6 


Dey  vent  to  see  an  edider, 

Who'd  shanged  his  flag  und  doon, 
Und  crowed  oopon  der  oder  side, 

Dat  very  afdernoon. 
■•  l)e  anciends  vorshipped  wetter-cocks. 

To  Vfettev  fanes  pent  de  knee; 
Pow  down,  meln  Schwackenhammcr,  pow  I" 

Said  Breitemann,  said  he. 

Dey  vented  py  a  pauker's  hause, 

Und  Schwackenhammer  shvore, 
Id  only  vant  a  pig  red  sliiehl 

Hoong  oop  pefore  de  toor  ; 
One  side  of  red,  one  side  of  gold. 

Like  de  knighd's  iu  hisdorie — 
"  De  schildern  of  dat  schild  is  rich," 

Said  Breitemann,  said  he. 


Dey  vent  oonto  a  bicture  sale, 

Of  frames  wort'  many  a  cent, 
De  broberty  of  a  shendleuian, 

"Who  oonto  Europe  vent. 
"  Dont  gry — he'll  soon  pe  pack  again 

Mit  anoder  gallerie  : 
He  sells  dem  oud  dwelf  dimes  a  year,' 

Said  Breitemann,  said  he. 


Dey  vented  to  dis  berson's  house, 

To  see  his  furnidure, 
Sold  oud  at  aucdion  rite  afay. 

Berembdory  und  sure. 
"He  geeps  six  houses  all  at  vonce 

Each  veek  a  sale  dere  pe, 
Gotts  !  vat  a  dime  his  vife  moost  hafc 

Said  Breitemann,  said  he. 


Dey  vent  to  vind  a  goot  cigar, 

Long  dimes  dey  roamed  apout, 
A'on  vcller  had  a  pran  new  sort, 

De  fery  latest  out. 
■  Mein  freund — I  dinks  you  errs  yourstlf 

Pc  shmell  ish  oldt  to  me  ; 
Pe  Infamias  Stinl-adores  brand, "- 

Said  Breitemann.  said  he. 


Pcy  vented  to  de  vtrsf  hotel, 

Pe  prandy  make  dem  creep, 
A  trop  of  id's  enough  to  make 

A  brazen  monkey  veep. 
Pcy  say  a  vincr  house  ash  dis, 

Vill  soon  ge-bildet  pe. 
Crate  Gott  I — vot  can  dey  mean  to  trink  ?" 

Said  Breitemann,  said  he. 


Dey  vented  droo  de  Irish  shtreeds, 

Dey  saw  vrom  liaus  to  liaus, 
Und  gountet  oop,  ^  pout  more  or  less, 

Vive  lioondred  awful  rows. 
"  If  all  dese  liddle  viglits  dey  waste. 

Could  von  crate  pattle  pe, 
Gotts  !  how  de  Fenian  funds  vouldt  rise  !" 

Said  Breitemann,  said  he. 

Dey  vent  to  see  de  Ridualisds, 

Who  vorship  Gott  mitt  viewers, 
In  hobes  he'll  lofe  dem  pack  again. 

In  winter  among  de  showers. 
"Vhen  de  Pacific  railroat's  done 

Dis  dings  imbrofed  vill  pe, 
De  joss-sticks  vill  pe  santal  vood," — 

Said  Breitemann,  said  he. 

Dey  vent  to  hear  a  breechcr  of 

De  last  sensadion  shtylc, 
'Twas  'nough  to  make  der  tyfel  weep 

To  sec  his  "awful  shmile." 
■'  Vot  bities  dat  der  Fechter  ne'er 

Vas  in  Theologie. 
Dey'd  make  him  pishop  in  dis,ghoorsh," 

Said  Breitemann,  said  he. 


Dey  vent  indo  a  shpordin'  crib, 

Be  rowdies  cloostered  dick. 
Dcy  ashk  him  dell  dem  vot  o'glock, 

Und  dat  infernal  quick. 
Dor  Breitmann  draw'd  his  'volvcr  oud, 

Ash  gool  ash  gool  couldt  pc, 
Id's  shoost  a  goia'  to  shdrikc  six," 

Said  Breitemann,  said  he. 


Dcy  vent  polid'gal  mccdins  next, 

Dey  hear  dem  rant  and  rail, 
Der  bresident  vas  a  forger. 

Shoost  bardoncd  oud  of  jail. 
He  does  it  oud  of  cratitood, 

To  dem  who  set  him  vrcc  : 
''Id's  Harmonic  of  Indcresds/' 

Said  Breitemann.  said  he. 


Dey  vent  to  a  clairfoyand  witch, 

A  plack-eyed  handsome  maid, 
She  wahrsagt  all  der  vortunes — denn 

"  Fife  dollars,  gents  1"  she  said. 
'  Desc  vitches  arc  nod  of  dis  cart', 

Und  yed  are  on  id,  I  sec 
Der  Shakesbeare  knew  de  prced  right  veil," 

Said  Breitemann,  said  he. 


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Dcy  vented  to  a  restaurand, 

Der  vaiter  coot  a  dash  ; 
He  garfed  a  shicken  in  a  vink^ 

Und  serfed  id  at  a  vlash. 
"Dat  shap  knows  veil  shoost  how  to  coot, 

Und  roon  mit  poulterie, 
He  vas  copitain  oonder  Turchin  vonce," 

Said  Breiteniann,  said  he. 


Dey  vented  to  de  Voman's  Righds, 

Yere  laties  all  agrees, 
De  gals  should  pe  de  voters, 

Und  deir  beaux  all  de  vetoes. 
''  For  efery  man  dat  nefer  vorks, 

Von  frau  should  vranchised  pe  : 
Dat  ish  de  vay  I  solf  dis  ding," 

Said  Breitemann,  said  he. 

Dey  vented  oop,  dey  vented  down, 

'Tvas  like  a  roarin'  rifer, 
De  sighds  vas  here — de  sighds  vas  dere- 

Und  de  vorldt  vent  on  forefer. 
"  De  more  ve  trinks,  de  more  ve  sees, 

Dis  vorldt  a  derwisch  pe  ; 
Das  Werden's  all  von  whirling  droonk," 

Said  Breitemann,  said  he. 


Schnitzerl's  Philosopede. 

PARDT   SECONDT. 


VEN  Breitmann  hear  dat  Schnitzerl 
A^as  quardered  into  dwo, 
Und  how  his  crate  philosopede 
To  'bi  teufel  had  gone  flew; 
He  dinked  and  dinked  so  heafy 

As  only  Deutschers  can, 
Denn  saidt,  "  Who  mighdt  beliefet 
Dis  ish  de  ent  of  man  ? 

"  De  human  souls  of  beoples 

Exisdt  in  deir  ide^s, 
Und  dis  of  Wolfram  Schnitzerl 

Mighdt  dravel  many  vays, 
In  his  Bestimmung  des  Menschen 

Der  Fichte  makes  peliefe 
Dat  ve  brogress  oon-endly 

In  vot  pehind  we  leafe. 

"  De  shbarrow  falls  ground-downwarts. 
Or  drafels  to  de  West; 
De  shbarrows  dat  coom  afder 

Bild  shoost  de  same  oldt  nest. 
Man  hat  not  vings  or  fedders, 
Und  in  odcr  dings,  'tis  saidt, 
•       (11) 


12 

lie  tout  coom  oop  to  shbarrow^  ; 
Boot  on  nests  he  goes  ahet. 

•■  0  vilest  dou  troo  bornln  vorldts 

Und  nebuloser  foam, 
By  monsdrous  mltniglit  shlant  forms 

Or  vbere  red  tyfels  roam, 
Or  vhere  de  chests  of  shky  rackets 

Peyond  creadlon  flee  ? 
Yhere'er  dou  art,  ola  Schnitzerlein  ! 

Crate  saint  I  look  down  on  me  ! 

'■  Und  deach  me  liow  you  maket 

Dat  crate  philosopede. 
A'^itch  roon  dwice  six  mals  vaster 

Ash  any  Arap  shteed, 
Und  deach  me  how  to  'stonish  folk 

Und  knock  dem  out  de  shpots. 
Come  pack  to  eart,  0  Schnitzerlein, 

Und  pring  it  down  to  dots  !" 

Shoost  ash  dis  vort  vent  outvarts 

Hans  dinked  he  see  a  vlash, 
Und  unterwards  de  dable 

lie  doomple  mit  a  crash, 
Und  to  him,  moong  de  glaesses, 

Und  pottles  ash  vas  proke, 
Mit  his  het  in  a  cigar  box. 

An  foice  from  Tlimmel  shpoke  : 


13 

'■  Adsiim  Domine  Breitmaun  ! 

Hcrr  Capitain — here  I  pe  ! 
So  dell  me  right  lionesie 

Quare  inquietasti  me  ? 
Te  video  inter  spoonibus, 

Et  Jargis  glassis  too, 
Cerevisia  repletis^ 

Siruf  p(rcnss7(s  tonifnif' 

Denn  Breitmann  ansvcr  Sehnitzerl : 

"  Coarcfor  nimis—^eel 
/Siq u idem  Fli  didilm 

Puguant  adversttm  me. 
Ergo  vocavi  (e, 

Ash  Saul  vocavit  Sam- 
uel, ut  mi  ostendcres 

Quid  teufel /ac7am  ?" 


Denn  der  shpirit,  in  Lateinisch 

Saidt  "  ,^f«f_clat's  de  dalk  ! 
jSfon  liahes  in  hoc  shantij 

A  shingle  et  some  chalk  ? 
Non  video  inAiim  et  ralamos  : 

(I  shbosc  some  bummer  shdole  'em) , 
Levate  oculos  tuos,  son 

El  aqrice  ad  linteohim  !" 


14 

Den  Breitmann  see  de  chalk-piece 

Yitch  riset  from  de  floor, 
Und  signet  a  pliilosopede 

Alone  oopon  de  toor, 
De  vou  dat  Schnitzerl  fabricate, 

Und  oonderneat  lie  see  : 
Probate  inter  equites : 

"  Try  dis  in  de  cavallrie." 

Den  Breitmann  slitoot  ooprightly 

Und  leanet  on  a  host,  [peen 

Und  saidt ;  "  If  dis  couldt,  shouldt  bafe 

It  vouldt  migbdt  peen  a  cbost ! 
Boot  if  it  pe  noiiomenon, 

Pbenomenoned  indeed, 
Or  de  soobyective  obyectified, 

I'fe  cot  de  pbilosopede." 

Denn  out  he  seekt  a  plack  schmidt 

Ash  vork  in  iron  shteel ; 
To  make  him  a  philosopede 

Mit  shoost  an  only  vheel. 
De  dings  vas  maket  simple, 

Ash  all  crate  idees  should  pe  ', 
For  'twas  noding  boot  a  gart  vbeel 

Mit  a  two  Veot  achsel-dree. 


15 

Dc  climes  der  Breitmaun  doomple 

In  learnin  for  to  ride, 
Vas  ofdener  ash  de  sand  grains 

Dat  rollen  in  de  tide. 
De  dimes  he  cot  oopsetted 

In  shdeerin  lefdt  und  righdt, 
Vas  ofdener  as  de  cleamin  shdars 

Dat  shtud  de  shky  py  nighdt. 

Boot  de  vorstest  of  de  veadures 

In  dis  von  vheel  horse,  you  bet, 
Ish  dat  man  couldt  go  so  nicely 

Pefore  he  got  oopset, 
Some  dimes  he  go  like  plazcs 

Und  toorn  her,  extra-fein, 
Und  denn  shlop  ofer — dis  is  vhat 

Hafe  kill  der  Schnitzerlcin. 


Soosh  droples  as  der  Breitmann  hafe 

To  make  dis  'vention  go, 
A"as  nefer  seen  py  mordal  man 

Oopon  dis  vorldt  pelow. 
He  doompled  righdt,  he  doomplcd  lefdt, 

He  hafe  a  tousand  toomps, 
Dere  nefer  vas  a  gricket-ball 

Vot  got  soosh  'fernal  boomps/ 


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Boot  ash  he  shvear't  he'd  do  it, 

He  shvore  id  should  po  done, 
Dough  he  schimpft  und  fluchtc  laestcrlich, 

He  visht  he'd  ne'er  pegun. 
Mit  Ha r/el!     Blitz!     Krcuzsakramcnt  ! 

He  maket  de  houser  ring, 
Und  hoped  de  Schnitzcrl  pc  vcrdammt 

For  dcachin  him  dis  ding. 

Nun — goot !     Ad  last  he  got  it. 

Und  peaudifool  he  goed, 
Dis  day,  saidt  he,  ''  I'll  stonish  folk 

A  ridin  on  dc  road  ; 
Dis  day  py  shinks  I'll  do  it '. 

Und  knock  dings  out  of  sight  I" 
Ach  weh  !  for  Breitmann  dat  day 

Vas  not  pe-markt  mit  vhite.  , 

Dc  noompcrs  of  de  Deutsche  folk 

Dat  coom  dis  feat  to  sec, 
I  dink  in  sopor  earnest-hood, 

Mighdt  not  ge-reckonet  pe. 
For  miles  dey  shtood  along  dc  road, 

Mein  Gott !  but  dey  vas  dry  ; 
Dey  trinked  den  lager-bcer  shops  oop, 

Pefore  der  Hans  coom  py. 


IT 

Vheu  all  at  vonce  drementous  gries 

De  fery  country  shook  ; 
Und  beoples  shkreemt  :  ''Da  ist  cr  !   Schau 

Dere  ish  der  Breitmann  ! — Look  I" 
MeiQ  Gott  I  vas  efer  soosh  a  shoudt  ? 

Yas  efer  soosli  a  gry  ? 
Yen  like  a  brick-bat  in  a  vight, 

Der  Breitemann  roosh  py. 

0  mordal  man  1     Yy  ish  id,  dow 

Hast  passion  to  go  vast  ? 
Yy  ish  id  dat  de  tog  und  horse 

Likes  shbeed  too  quick  to  last  ? 
Pe  pugs,  de  pirds,  de  pumple-poes, 

Und  all  dat  ish,  'twould  seem, 
Ish  nefer  hoppy  boot,  exsept 

When  pilin  on  de  shteam. 

Dor  Breitmann  flew  !     Yon  niighdy  gry. 

Ash  he  vent  scootin  bast, 
A'on  derriple,  drementous  yell — 

Dat  day  de  virst — and  last. 
Yot  ha  !  vot  ho  !   Yy  ish  id  dus  ? 

Yot  makes  dem  shdare  aghast  ? 
Yy  cooms  dat  vail  of  wild  tespair  ? 

Ish  somedings  got  gesmasht  ? 


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Yea— efen  so.     Yea,  ferily — 

Shbeak,  soul  !     It  is  dy  biz  ! 
Der  Breitmann  slikeet  so  vast  along, 

Dey  fairly  heard  him  whizz. 
Van  shoost  oopon  a  hill-top  point 

It  caught  a  pranch  ge-pent, 
Und  like  an  opple  vrom  a  svitch, 

Afay  Hans  Breitmann  vent. 

Vent  troo  de  air  a  hoondert  feet, 

(Allowin  more  or  less) — 
Denn  pohh — pohh — -pohh — a  mile  or  dwo, 

He  rollet  along — I  guess. 
Say — hast  dou  seen  a  gannon  ball 

Half  shpent,  shtill  poundin  on  ; 
Like  made  of  gummi-lasticum  ? 

So  vent  der  Breitemann. 


Dey  bick  him  up — dey  pring  him  in — 

No  wort  der  Breitmann  shpoke. 
Der  doktor  look — he  shvear  erstaunt 

Dat  nodings  ish  peen  proke  ! 
He  rollet  de  rocky  road  entlong, 

He  pouncet  o'er  shtock  und  shtonc  ? 
You'd  dink  he'd  knocked  his  outsides  in, 

Yet  nefer  preak  a  pone  ! 


19 


All  shtill  Hans  lay — bevilderfied — 

Nor  seemet  to  mind  de  shaps, 
Nor  moofed,  oontil  der  medieus 

Hafe  dose  him  veil  mit  schnapps. 
De  schmell  voke  oop  de  boetry 

Of  taya  yen  he  vas  young, 
Und  he  murmulte  de  frogmends 

Of  an  sad  romandic  song  : 

"  As  summer  pring  de  roses, 

Und  roses  pring  de  dew, 
So  Deutschland  gifes  de  maidens 

Yot  fetch  de  bier  to  you. 
Komm  Maidlein  !     Rothe  Waenglein  ! 

Mit  a  wein  glass  in  your  paw  ! 
Ve'll  ged  troonk  amoong  de  roses 

Und  lie  soper  on  de  shdraw  ! 

"  As  winter  prings  de  ice-wind, 

Dat  plow  o'er  burg  und  hill, 
Hard  times  pring  in  de  lantlord, 

Und  de  lantlord  pring  de  bill. 
Boot  sing  Maidlein  !     Rothe  "Waengelein 

Mit  wein  glass  in  your  paw  ! 
Ve'll  ged  troonk  amoong  de  roses 

Und  lie  sober  on  de  shdraw  !" 


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Dey  dook  der  Breitmann  liomewarts, 

Boot  efer  on  de  vay, 
He  nefer  shbeaket  no  man, 

Und  noding  else  could  say  : 
Boot — "  Maidlein — Rotlie  Waengelein  ! 

Mit  wein  glass  in  her  paw, 
We'll  ged  troonk  amoong  de  rosen 

Fnd  lie  soper  on  de  slidraw  I" 

Dey  laid  der  Hans  im  Bette, 

Peneat  de  eider-doun, 
Und  sempled  all  de  doktors 

Vot  doktored  in  de  town. 
Dat  isli,  de  Deutsche  Aertzte, 

For  Breitmann  alfays  says, 
De  Deutschers  ish  de  onlies 

Mit  originell  idees. 

Dere  vas  Doktor  Moritz  Schlinkenschlog. 

Dat  vork  ash  caf<^'opath, 
Und  der  learned  Cobus  Schoepfskopf, 

Dat  use  de  milchy  bath  ; 
Und  Korschalitschky  aus  Boehmen, 

Vot  cure  mit  slibovitz, 
Und  "Wechselbalg  from  Berlin. 

Who  only  'tend  to  fits. 


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Dere  vas  Strobbicli  aus  Westfalen 

Who  mofe  all  eart'ly  ills 
Mit  concentrirter  schinkea  juice, 

Und  Pumpernickel  pills  ; 
Und  a  bier-kur  man  from  Munich^ 

Und  a  grape-curist  from  Rhein, 
Und  von  wto  slikare  tisease  afay 

Mit  dose  of  Schlesier  wein. 

So  dey  meed  in  consooldation 

Mit  Doktor  Winkeleck, 
Who  brackdise  "renovation  " 

Mit  sauerkraut  und  speck. 
Und  dat  no  man  shouldt  pe  shlightet 

Or  treatet  ash  a  tunce, 
Dey  'greed  to  try  deir  systems 

Oopon  Breitmann  all  at  vonce. 

Dat  ish,  mit  de  excepdion, 

Of  gifin  Schlesier  wein  ; 
For  de  remedy  vas  danger-full 

On  von  who  trink  from  Rhine. 
Ash  der  teufel  once  declaret 

Yen  he  taste  it  on  a  shpree, 
Dat  a  man  to  trink  soosh  liquor 

Moost  a  born  Silesian  pe^ 


So  de  all  vent  los  at  Breitmann, 

Und  woonderfool  to  dell, 
He  coomed  to  liis  gesundheit, 

Und  pootj  soon  cot  veil, 
Some  hinted  at  Natura 

Mit  de  oldt  vis  sanatrix^ 
Boot  each  dokter  shvore  Tie  cured  him, 

Und  do  rest  were  Taugenix. 


I  know  not  vot  der  Breitmann 

More  newly  has  pegun, 
Boot  dey  say  he  dalks  day-daily 

Mit  Dana  of  de  Sun. 
Bey  dalk  in  Deutsch  togeder, 

Und  volk  say  de  ent  vill  pe 
Philosopedal  changes 

In  de  Union  cavallrie. 

Gott  help  de  howlin  safage  ! 

Grott  help  de  Indi-an  ! 
Shouldt  Breitmann  choin  his  forces 

MitSheneral  Sheridan. 
Und  denn  to  sing  his  braises 

Acain  I'll  gife  a  lied— 
Ilier  hat  dis  dale  an  ende 

Of  Breitmann's  philosopede. 


A  Ballad  apout  de  Rowdies. 

DE  moon  shines  ofer  dc  cloudlcns, 
Und  dc  cloudts  plow  ofer  de  sea, 
Und  I  vent  to  Coney  Island, 
Und  I  took  niein  Schatz  mitme. 
Mine  Schatz,  Katrina  Bauer, 

I  gife  her  mein  heart  und  vordt; 
Boot  ve  tidn't  know  vot  beoples 
Dc  Dampsschiffhafecot  on  poard. 

Dc  prcczc  plowed  cool  und  bleasant, 

"Wc  looket  at  de  town 
Mit  sonn-light  on  dc  shdeeblcs, 

Und  wetter  fanes  doornin  round. 
Yc  sat  on  dc  deck  in  a  gorner 

Unddroplednopody  dere, 
Vea  all  aroundt  oos  de  rowdies 

Poginnc'J  to  plackguard  und  schvear  ! 

A  voman  mit  a  papy 

Vas  sittin  in  de  blacc; 
Yon  tooket  a  chew  tobacco 

Und  trowed  it  indo  her  yacc. 
De  voman  got  coonvulshons, 

De  papy  pegin  to  gry  ; 
Und  de  rowdies  shkrcemcd  out  a  laffin, 

Und  saidt  dat  de  fun  vas  '•  high." 
(23) 


24 

Pimepy  vc  become  some  hoongcr 

Katrina  Baur  und  I, 
I  opeaet  de  lit  of  mine  pasket, 

Und  pringed  out  a  cherry  bie. 
A  clierry  kooken  mit  pretzels, 

"  How  goot !"  Katrina  said, 
Ven  a  rowdy  snatched  it  from  her, 

Und  preaked  it  ofer  minehet, 

I  dells  him  he  pe  a  plackguart 

I  gifed  him  a  bieee  my  mind, 
I  vouldt  saidt  it  pefore  a  tousand, 

Mit  der  teufel  himself  pchiud. 
Pen  he  knocks  me  down  mit  a  sloong-shot, 

Und  peats  me  plack  and  plue  ; 
Und  all  de  plackguardskickme, 

Dill  I  vainted,  und  dat  ish  drue. 


Dc  rich  American  beoples 

Don't  know  how  de  rowdies  shtrike 
Der  poor  hardt-workin  Sherman, 

He  knows  it  more  ash  he  like. 
If  de  Deutsche  speakers  und  bapers 

Are  sometimes  too  hard  on  dis  land, 
Shoost  dink  how  de  Deutsch  kit  driven 

Along  by  de  rowdy's  hand  ! 


Wein  Geist. 


I 


STOOMrLED  oud  ov  a  dafern, 
Bcrausclit  mit  a  gallon  of  wcin, 

Und  I  rooshed  along  de  Strassen, 
Like  a  derriple  Eberschwein. 


Und  like  a  lordly  boar-big, 

I  doompled  de  soper  folk  ; 
Und  I  trowed  a  sbtone  droo  a  sbdrccd  lamp , 

Und  bot'  of  de  classes  I  proke. 

Und  a  gal  vGnt  roonin'  bast  me. 

Like  a  vild  coose  on  de  vings, 
Boot  I  gatch  her  for  all  her  skrcecbin, 

Und  giss  her  like  afery  dings. 

L'nd  denn  mit  an  board  und  a  shdorc-box. 

I  blay  de  horse-viddle  a  biece. 
Dill  de  neighbours  shkrcem  "deaf  !"  und 
"  murder  !" 

Und  holler  aloudt  "  bolice  ?" 

Und  vhen  der  crim  night  wacchtcr 
Says  all  of  dis  foon  moost  shtop, 

I  oop  mit  mein  oombrella, 
Und  schlog  him  ober  de  kop. 
(25) 


26 

I  leaf  him  like  tead  on  de  bavemend, 
Und  roosh  droo  a  darklin'  lane, 

Dill  moonliglid  und  tisdand  musik, 
Pring  me  roundt  to  my  soul  again. 

Und  I  sits  all  oonder  de  linden, 
De  hearts-leaf  linden  dree  ; 

Und  I  dink  of  de  quick  ge-vanisht  lofe 
Dat  vent  like  de  vind  from  me. 

Und  I  voonders  in  mine  dipsy  hood, 
If  a  damsel  or  dream  vas  she  ! 

Dis  life  ish  all  a  lindens 
Mit  holes  dat  show  de  Plue; 

Und  pedween  de  finite  pranches, 
Cooms  Himmel  light  shinin  troo. 

De  blaetter  are  raushlin'  o'er  me, 

Und  efery  leaf  ish  a  fay, 
Und  dey  vait  dill  de  Windsbraut  comet, 

To  pear  dem  in  Fall  afay. 

Und  I  look  at  a  rock  py  de  rifer, 
Vhere  a  stein  ish  of  harpe  form, 

-Year  dausend  in,  oud,  it  shtandet — 
Und  nopody  blays  but  de  shtorm. 


27 

Here  vonce  on  a  dimes  a  vitclies, 
Soom  melodies  here  peginned, 

De  harpe  ward  all  zu  steine, 
Die  melodic  ward  zu  wind. 

Und  so  mit  dis  tox-i-cation, 
Vitcli  hardens  de  outer  Me  ; 

Tiber  stein  and  schwein,  de  weine, 
Shdill  harps  oud  a  luelodie. 

Boot  deeper  de  Ur-lied  ringet,^ 
Ober  stein  und  wein  und  svines, 

Dill  it  endet  vhere  all  peginnet, 
Und  alles  wird  ewig  zu  eins, 

In  de  dipsy,  treamless  sloomper 
Vhich  units  de  Nichts  und  Seyns 


Breitmann  in  Politics. 


I.—The  Nomination. 


VHEN  ash  de  var  vas  ober, 
Und  Beace  her  shnow-wice  vings, 
Yas  vafia  o'er  de  coondry 
(la  shpods)  like  afery  dings; 
Und  heroes  vere  revardtet, 

De  beople  all  pegan 
To  say  'tvas  shame  dat  nodings 
Vas  done  for  Breitemann. 

No  man  wised  how  id  vas  shtartet, 

Or  where  der  fore  shlog  came, 
Boot  dey  shveared  it  vas  a  cinder, 

Dereto  a  purnin  shame  : 
"  Dere  is  Schnitzerl  in  de  Gustom-House — 

Potzblitz  !  can  dis  dings  pe  ? — 
Und  Breitmann  he  hafe  nodings  : 

Vot  sights  is  dis  to  see  ! 

"  Nod  de  virst  ret  ccndt  for  Breitmann  I 

Ish  (lis  do  pe  de  gry 
On  de  man  dat  sacked  de  repels 
Und  trinked  dem  high  und  dry  ? 
(28) 


29 


By  meine  Seel'  I  shvears  id, 

Und  vot's  more  I  deglares  id's  drue, 

He  vonce  gleaned  out  a  down  in  half  an  oor, 
Und  sh tripped  id  strumpf  und  shoe. 

"  He  was  shoost  like  Koenig  Etzel, 

Of  whom  de  shdory  dell, 
Der  Hun  who  go  for  de  Romans 

Und  gife  dem  shinin  hell, 
Only  dis  dat  dey  say  no  grass  vouldt  crow 

Vhere  Etzel's  horse  had  trot, 
Und  I  really  peliefe  vere  Breitmann  go 

De  hops  shpring  oop,  bei  Gott  1" 

If  once  you  tie  a  dog  loose, 

Dere  isli  more  soon  gets  arount, 
Und  wenn  dis  vas  shtartedt  on  Breitmann 

It  was  rings  aroom  be-foundt ; 
Dough  vly  he  moost  Tiafe  somedings 

Vas  not  by  no  mean  glear, 
Nor  tid  id,  like  Paulus'  confersioD, 

On  de  snap  to  all  abbear  I 

Und,  in  facdt,  Balthazar  Bumchen 
Saidt  he  couldtent  nicht  blainly  see 

Vy  a  veller  for  gadderin  riches 
Shood  dus  revartedt  pe  : 


30 

Der  Bieitmann  own  drei  Houser, 

Mit  a  wein-liandle  in  a  stohr, 
Dazu  eia  Lager-Wirthscliaft, 

Und  sonst  was — somedings  more, 

Dis  plasted  plackguard  none-sense 

Ve  coulda't  no  means  shtand, 
From  a  narrow-mineted  shvine's  kopf,    , 

Of  our  nople  captain  grand  : 
Soosh  low,  goarse,  betty  hornirtlieit 

A  shentleman  deplores ; 
So  ve  called  him  verjluclitcr  Ilundsfott 

Und  sbmysed  him  out  of  toors. 

So  ve  all  dissolfed  dat  Breitmaan 

Shouldt  hafe  a  nomination 
To  go  to  de  Legisladoor, 

To  make  some  dings  off  de  nation  j 
Mit  de  helb  of  a  Connedigut  man, 

In  whom  ve  hafe  great  hobcs, 
Who  hat  shange  his  boledics  fivdeen  dimes, 

Und  derefore  knew  de  robes. 


IL— The  Committee  of  Instruction. 


DENN  for  our  Insdructions  Comedy 
Be  ding  vas  protocollirt, 
By  Docktor  Emsig  Grubler, 
Who  in  Jena  vonce  studirct ; 
Und  for  Brcitmann  his  instrugtions 

De  Comedy  tid  say 
Dat  de  All  out-going  from  de  Ones 
Yash  die  first  Jloral  Idee. 

Und  de  segondt  crate  Moral  Idee 

Dat  into  him  ye  rinss, 
Vas  dat  government  for  avery  man 

Moost  alfays  do  avery  dings  ; 
Und  die  next  Idee  do  vitch  his  mindt 

Esbecially  ve  gall, 
Ish  to  do  mitout  a  Bresidcnt 

Und  no  government  at  all. 

Und  die  fourt  Idee  ve  vish  der  Ilans 

Vouldt  alfays  keeb  in  fiew, 
Tsh  to  cooldifate  die  Pcaudifool, 

Likewise  de  Goot  and  Drue; 
Und  de  form  of  dis  oopright-hood 

In  proctise  to  present, 
He  most  get  our  little  pills  all  bassed 

Mitout  id's  gostin  a  cent. 
(31) 


82 

Und  die  fift'  Idee — ash  Icarnin 

Isli  dc  cratest  ding  on  earfc, 
And  ash  Shoopider  der  Vater 

To  Minerfa  gife  ge-birt' — 
Ve  peg  dat  Breitmann  oocto  oos 

All  pooblic  toctuments 
Vich  he  can  grap  or  shteal  vill  scndt — 

Franked — mit  his  gompliments. 

Die  scchste  crate  Moral  Idee  — 

Since  id  fery  veil  ish  known 
Dat  mind  ish  de  resooldt  of  food, 

Ash  der  Moleschott  has  shown, 
Und  ash  mind  ish  de  highest  form  of  Gott, 

As  in  Fichte  dot'  abbear — 
He  moost  alfays  go  mit  de  barty 

Dat  go  for  lager  bier. 

Now  ash  all  dese  instrugdions 

Vere  showed  to  Misder  Twine, 
De  Yangee  boledician, 

He  say  dey  vere  fery  fine  : 
Dey  vere  pesser  ash  goot^  und  almosdt  nice — 

A  tarnal  tall  concern  ; — 
Boot  dey  hafe  some  little  trawpacks, 

Und  in  fagdt  weren't  worth  a  dern. 


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Boot  yed,  mit  our  bermisslon, 

If  de  shentlemans  allow — 
Here  all  der  Shermans  in  de  room 

Dake  off  deir  hats  und  pow — 
He  vouldt  gife  our  honored  gandidate 

Some  nodions  of  his  own, 
Hafing  managed  some  elecdions 

Mit  sookcess,  as  veil  vas  known. 

Let  him  plow  id  all  his  own  vay, 

He'd  pet  as  sure  as  born. 
Dat  our  mann  vouldt  not  coora  out  of 

Der  liddlo  endt  der  horn, 
Mit  his  gQo[, proacl  Sherman  shoulders- 

Dis  maket  oos  laugh,  pj  shink  ! 
So  de  comedy  shtart  for  Breitmann's — 

Nota  bene — afder  a  trink  ! 


Ill— Mr.  Twine  Explains  Being  "  Sound 
Upon  the  Goose." 


DERE  in  his  crate  corved  oaken  slitulil 
Der  Breitmann  sot  he  : 
He  lookt  shoost  like  de  shiant 
In  de  Kinder  hishdorie  ; 
Und  peforc  him,  on  de  tische, 

Vas — vhere  man  alfays  foundt  it — 
Dwelf  inches  of  goot  lagOx, 

Mit  a  Boemisch  glass  aroundt  i'c. 


De  foorst  vordt  dat  der  Breitmann  spoke 

He  maked  no  sbcech  or  sign  : 
De  next  remark  vas,  ''  Zapfet  aus  /" — 

De  dird  vas,  ''  Schenlcet  ein  !" 
Vhen  in  coomed  liddle  Gottlieb 

Und  Trina  mit  a  shtock 
Of  allerbcst  Markgraefler  wein — 

Dazu  dwclf  glaeser  Bock. 


Denn  Misder  Twine  deglare  dat  he 

Yas  happy  to  denounce 
Dat  as  Copdain  Breitmann  suited  cos 

Egsockdlj  do  an  ounce, 

(34) 


35 


He  vas  ged  de  nomination, 

And  need  nod  more  eckstblain  : 

Der  Breitmann  dink  in  silence, 

And  denn  roar  aloudt,  Champagne  ! 

Den  Mislider  Twine,  while  trlnken  wein, 

Mitwliiles  vent  on  do  say, 
Dat  long  insdruckdions  in  dis  age 

Vere  nod  de  dime  of  tay  ; 
Und  de  only  ding  der  Breitmann  need 

To  pe  of  any  use 
Vas  slioost  to  dell  to  afery  mans 

He's  soundt  oopon  der  coose. 

Und  ash  dis  little  frase  berhops 

Vas  nod  do  oos  bekannt, 
He  dakes  de  liberdy  do  make 

Dat  ye  shall  oondershtand, 
And  vouldt  tell  a  liddle  shdory 

Vitch  dook  blace  pefore  de  wars  : 
Here  der  Breitmann  nod  to  Trina, 

Und  she  bass  aroundt  cigars. 

''  Id  ish  a  longe  dime,  now  here, 
In  Bennsylvanien's  Shtate, 
All  in  der  down  of  Horrisburg 
Dere  rosed  a  vierce  depate, 


36 

'Tween  vamilies  mit  cooses, 

Und  dose  vhere  none  vere  foundt- 
If  cooses  might,  by  common  law, 

(to  squanderin  aroundt  ? 

'"  Dose  wlio  vere  nod  pe-glfted 

Mit  gooses,  und  vere  poor, 
All  slivear  de  law  forbid  dis  crime, 

Pj  shings  and  cerdain  sure  ; 
But  dc  coose-holders  teklare  a  coose 

Greadt  liberty  tid  need. 
And  t.0  pen  dem  cop  vas  gruel, 

Und  a  mosdt  oon-Christian  teed. 

"  Und  denn  auoder  party 

Idself  tid  soon  refeal. 
Of  arisdograts  who  kepd  no  coose, 

Pecause  'twas  not  shendeel  : 
Tey  tid  not  vish  de  splodderin  geese 

Shouldt  on  deir  pafcmends  bass, 
So  dey  shoined  de  anti-coosers. 

Or  de  oonder  lower  glass  !" 

Here  ]5reitmann  led  his  shdeam  out : 
"  Dis  shdory  goes  to  show 

Dat  ia  poledicks,  ash  lager, 
Virius  in  medio. 


37 

De  drecks  ish  ad  de  pottom — 
De  skoom  floads  high  inteed  ; 

Boot  das  bier  ish  in  de  mittle, 
Sajs  an  goot  old  Sherman  lied. 

"  Und  shoost  apout  elegdion-dimes 
De  scoom  imd  drecks,  ve  see, 
Have  a  pully  Wahl-verwandtschaft, 
Or  eleetion-sj'mpathic." 
'•  Dis  is  very  vine,"  says  Misder  Twine, 
"  Yot  here  you  indroduce  : 
Mit  your  bermission,  I'll  gi'ack  on 
Mit  my  shdory  of  de  coose. 

"  A  gandertate  for  sheriff 

De  coose-beholders  run, 
Who  shvear  de  eoose  de  noblest  dings 

Vot  valk  peneat  de  sun  ; 
For  de  cooses  safe  de  Capidol 

In  Rome  long  dimes  ago, 
Und  Horrisburg  need  safin 

Mighty  pad,  ash  all  do  know. 

"  Acainsd  dis  mighdy  Groose-man 
Anoder  veller  rose. 
Who  keepedt  himself  ungommon  shtill 
Yen  oders  came  to  plows ; 


38 

Und  if  any  ask  how  'twas  he  shtoodt, 
His  vriends  wouldt  vink  so  loose, 

Und  visper  ash  day  dapped  deir  nose 
'  He's  soiindt  oopon  de  coose  ! 

"  '  He's  0.  K.  oopon  de  soobjeet; 

Shoost  pet  your  pile  on  dat  ; 
On  dis  bartik'ler  quesdion 

He  intends  to  coot  it  fat.' 
So  de  veller  cot  elegded 

Pefore  de  beople  foundt 
On  vitch  site  of  der  coose  it  vas 

He  shtick  so  awful  soundt. 

"  Dis  shdory's  all  I  hafe  to  dell," 

Says  Misder  Hiram  Twine  ; 
'■  Fnd  I  advise  Herr  Breitmann 
Shoost  to  vight  id  on  dis  line." 
De  volk  who  of  dese  boledics 
Would  oder  shapters  read, 
Moost  waiten  for  de  segondt  pardt 
Of  dis  here  Breitmann's  Lied. 


IV.— How  Breitmann  and  Sohmit  were  Pweported 
to  bo  Log-Rolling. 

2SSS ■ 

ID  happenct  iu  de  yar  of  crace. 
Yen  all  dese  dings  pegan, 
Dat  Mislider  Schmit,  dc  shap  who  rooncd 
Acainsd  dcr  Brcitemann, 

Vas  a  man  who  look  like  Mishder  Twine 
So  raoosh  dat  beoplcs  say 

Dey  pliefe  dey  uioost  gc-brudcrt  pc — 
Gott  weiss  in  vot  a  vay  I 

Und  id  vas  also  moosh  be-marked — 

Vitch  look  shoost  like  a  bruder — 
Dat  ven  Twine  vas  vork  on  any  side 

Der  Schmit  vas  on  dc  odor  : 
A  fery  gommon  dodge  ish  dis 

Mit  de  arisdocracie  ; 
So  dat  votefer  cardt  toorns  oop, 

Id's  game  for  dc  familie  I 

Nun,  goot  I     Ilowcfer  dis  mighdt  pe, 

'Tvas  cerdain  on  dis  hit 
Der  Twine  vas  do  his  teufelest 

To  euchre  Mishder  Schmit ; 
Und  Schmit,  I  criefe  to  say,  exglaimed  : 

"  Goll  darn  me  for  a  fool, 
But  I'll  smash  old  Dutch  to  cholera  fits 

And  rake  the  eternal  pool  I" 
(39) 


40 


So  dey  cot  some  liddlc  ledders, 

Ash  brifate  ash  could  pc, 
Vitch  Breitmann  writed  long  agono 

To  friendts  in  Germany  • 
Und  dey  brinted  dem  in  efery  vay 

To  make  de  beoples  laugh, 
Und  comment  on  dem  in  de  shtyle 

Dat  "sports"  call  '=  slasher-gaff." 

Deve  to — as  vash  known  py  shoodshment 

Und  glearly  aseerdaind, 
Dat  Breitmann  hafe  lossed  money 

Py  a  valsc  und  schwindlin  friend — 
So  dey  roon  it  troo  de  newsbapers, 

Und  shbeech  do  make  pegan, 
Dat  Breifmann  shtolc  de  gelt  himself 

Und  rop  der  odcr  man. 

Boot  de  ding  dat  jam  do  hardest 

On  de  men  dat  bull  de  vires, 
Und  showed  dat  Captain  Breitmann 

Shtood  pedween  dwo  heafy  vires, 
A^as,  pecausc  he  vas  a  soldier — 

Von  could  see  id  at  a  clanse — ■ 
Dey  had  pud  him  in  a  tisdrigt 

Vhere  he  hadn't  half  a  shanse. 


41 

For  ash  cle  pold  solidaten 

Isli  more  prafe  ash  ocler  mans, 
Dey  moost  lead  de  hope  verloren 

Und  pattle  in  de  vans ; 
Und  ash  defeat  ish  honoraplc 

To  men  in  honor  shtrict, 
Dey  honor  dem  py  puttin  em 

Vhere  dey 're  Ccirdain  to  pe  licked. 

Boot  dis  dimes  it  shlopped  over, 

Tvas  de  dird  or  secondt  heat 
Dat  a  soldier  in  dis  tisdrigt 

Had  been  poot  oop  und  beat  : 
So  de  Plue  Goats  dink  it  over 

Und  go  quietly  to  vork  : 
De  bow  ven  too  moosh  aufgespannt 

Vlies  packward  mit  a  yerk. 

Now  Mishder  Twine  deglaret  on  dis 

De  ding  seemed  doubtenfull, 
Boot  mitout  delay  he  dook  de  horns 

So  poldly  py  de  bull, 
Und  shpread  de  shdory  eferyvhere, 

Dill  folk  to  pliefe  pegan, 
Dat  Mishder  Schmit  had  &old  de  vxglit 

Unto  der  Breitemann ! 


42 

He  fix  de  liddlc  tedails — • 

How  moosh  der  Sclimit  hafc  got 
For  sellin  out  his  barty 

To  let  Breitmann  haul  de  pot ; 
Und  he  showed  a  brifate  leddcr 

From  Breitcmann  to  Schmit, 
Vhere  he  bromise  him  for  Congress 

If  he  shoost  let  oop  a  bit. 

Der  Twine  vas  wrltet  dis  ledder ; 

For  der  Copitain  Breitemann 
Vould  nefer  hafe  shtood  soosh  hoompoogks 

Since  virst  his  life  pegan ; 
He  hat  tone  some  rough  dings  in  der  war, 

In  de  ploonder-und-morder  line, 
Boot  vas  hoockelperry-persimmoned 

Mit  dese  boledics  of  Twine. 


Howefer,  dis  ledder  vorket  foorst-rade — 

Mit  de  Merigans  pest  of  all, 
For  dey  mostly  dinked  it  de  naturalest  ding 

As  efer  couldt  pefall ; 
For  to  sheat  von's  own  gonstitucnts 

Ish  de  pest  mofe  in  de  came, 
Und  dey  nefer  sooposed  a  Dootchman 

Hafe  de  sense  to  do  de  same 


v.— How  they  held  the  Mass  Meeting. 


Dere's  nodings  in  dis  vorldt  so  pad, 
Ash  all  oov  us  may  learn, 
Boot  may  sliange  from  dark  to  lightliood, 
If  loock  should  dake  a  doom  ; 
So  it  happenet  mit  Breitmann, 

Who  in  shpite  of  sin  und  Schmit, 
Grontrified  ad  shoost  dis  yooncture 
Do  make  a  glucky  hit. 

Dey  hat  sendet  out  some  plackarts 

To  de  Deutsche  buergers  all 
(N.  B. — Dish  ish  not  meam  plackarts, 

Boot  de  pills  dey  shtickon  de  vail), 
To  say  data  Massenversammlung — 

Or  a  meeding  of  all  de  masses — 
Vould  be  held  in  de  Arbeiter-Halle, 

To  eonslsd  of  do  Sharman  classes. 

Now  dey  gife  de  brintin  of  de  pills 

To  a  new  gekommene  man, 
Who  dinked  dat  Demokratisch 

Vas  de  same  ash  Bepooblican  : 
Gott  in  Himmel  weiss  where  he  hid  himself 

On  dish  free  Coloompian  shore 
Dat  he  scaped  de  naturalizationisds, 

Und  hadn't  found  out  pefore. 
(43j 


44 

Boot  to  dis  Deutsclie  brinter, 

De  only  tifFerence  he 
Petween  Repooblicanish 

Und  Demokratisch  tid  sec, 
Vas  dat  von  vash  dwo  ledders  longer ; 

So  he  dook  shoost  vot  seem  pat 
To  make  de  poster  handsome — 

Likewise  a  liddle  fat. 

How  ofden  in  dis  buzzlin  life 

Small  grubs  grows  oop  to  vings  ! 
How  ofden  shoost  from  moostard  seet 

A  virst-glass  pusiness  shprings  ! 
Vant  Mein  homt  men  tot't  groote, 

Ash  de  Hollanders  hafe  said  : 
Mit  dese  dwo  ledders  Breitemann 

Caved  in  der  Schmitsy's  head. 


VL— Breitmann's  Great  Speech. 


Dis  tale  dat  Schmit  hafe  seu  de  vight 
Cot  so  mucli  put  apout 
Dat  many  of  liis  beoples  vere 
In  fery  tupious  toubt ; 
Tove  all,  dose  wlio  were  on  de  make, 

And  easy  change  deir  lodge, 
Und,  pein  awfool  smart  demselfs, 
Pelievc  in  every  dodge. 

Vhen  de  mceding  vas  gesempled, 

Und  dey  found  no  Schmit  vas  dere, 
Dey  looket  at  von  anoder 

Mit  a  ganz  erstaunished  air; 
But  dey  saic  it  glear  as  taylight, 

Und  around  a  vink  dere  ran. 
Yen  pefore  dem  rose  de  shiant  form 

Of  Copitain  Breitemann  ! 

Den  Breitemann  vent  los  at  dem  : 

'•  He  could  nichts  well  exhress 
De  rapdure  dat  hesqueezed  his  hearts — 

De  wonnevol  hoppiness — 
To  meed  in  friendlich  council 

And  glasp  de  hand  of  dose 
Who  had  peen  mit  most  oonreason 

Und  uukindtly  galled  his  foes. 
(45) 


46 

"  Berhaps  o'ei  all  dis  shmilia  eart' — 

lie  vould  say  it  dere  and  den — 
Soosh  shpecdagles  couldt  nod  pe  seen 

Of  soosh  imbartial  men. 
So  tefoid  of  pase  sospicion, 

So  apove  all  betty  dricks, 
Ash  to  gome  und  lisden  vairly 

To  a  voe  in  poledicks  ; 

"  Dat  ish  to  say,  a  so-galled  voe — ■ 

For  he  feeled  id  in  his  soul 
Dat  de  brindi^hs  vitch  mofed  dem 

Vera  de  same  oopon  de  whole  ; 
But  he  lack  a  vord  to  exbress  dem 

In  manners  opportunes — " 
Here  a  veller  in  de  gallery 

Gry  oud^  oonkindly,  "  Shpoons  !" 

TInd  dere  der  Breitmann  goppled  him  : 

'•  If  s/i^ooHs  our  modifes  pe, 
Dere's  not  a  man  pefore  oos 

Who  losscd  a  shpoon  by  me  : 
Far  rader  had  I  gife  you  all 

A  shpoons  to  eaten  mit,    " 
Und  I  hope  to  get  a  ladle  for 

Minefriendt,  der  Mishder  ScJimit." 


47 

Dis  fetch  das  Haus  like  doondcr — 

It  raised  der  teufel's  dust, 
Und  for  sefen-lefcn  minudcs 

Day  ooplauded  on  a  bust ; 
Und  de  blokes  dat  dinked  of  liedgin 

Saw  a  ring  as  round  as  0  ; 
So  day  boked  easli  oder  in  de  rips, 

Und  said,  ''  I  dold  jou  so  I" 

For  dis  d'lusion  to  de  ladle 

Vas  as  glear  asli  city  milk, 
Und  drawd  it  on  de  beoples 

So  vine  asli  flossen  silk, 
Dat  Hans  und  Schmit  vere  rollin  locks, 

Und  de  locks  were  ready  cut ; 
Only  Breitmann  bafe  de  liddle  end, 

Und  Schmitsy  dakc  de  butt ! 

Den  Breitemann  lie  crack  onward  : 

"  If  any  'lightened  man 
Will  seeken  in  his  Bibel, 

He'll  find  dat  a  publican 
Is  a  barty  ash  sells  lager ; 

Und  das  ding  is  ferry  blain, 
Dat  a  re-publican  ish  von 

Who  sells  id  'gain  und  'gain. 


48 

"  Now  since  dat  I  sells  lager, 

Igant  agreen  mit 
De  demprance  brinciples  I  hear 

Distriputet  to  Sclimit ; 
Boot  dis  I  dells  you  vairlj, 

Und  no  one  to  teseife — 
If  I  were  Sclimit,  I'd  pliefen 

Shoost  Yot  der  Schmit  peliefe. 

''  And  to  mine  Sherman,  liperal  friends 

I  might  mention  in  dis  shpot 
Dat  I  hear  an  oonfoundet  rumor 

Dat  der  Schmit  peliefe  in  Gott; 
Und  also  dat  he  coes  to  shoorsh— 

Mit  a  prayer-book  for  salfadion  : 
I  vould  not  for  die  welt  say  dings 

To  hoort  his  repudadion. 

"  Und  nodin  is  more  likely 

Dat  it  all  a  shlander  pe, 
So  also  de  rumor  datven  young 

He  shtoody  divinidy  : 
T  myself,  ash  a  publican, 

Moost  pe  a  sinner  by  fate^ 
Und  in  dis  sense  I  denounce  myself 

Ash  Re-publi-candidatc  ! 


49 


"  Und  dat  ve  may  meed  in  gommon, 

I  declare  here  ia  dis  hall — 
Und  I  shvears  mineself  to  hold  to  it, 

Fotefer  may  pefall — 
Dat  any  man  who  gifes  me  his  fote — 

Votevefer  his  boledicks  pe — 
Shall  alfays pe  regartet 

Aih  holidlgal  friendt  py  me," 

(Dis  voonderfol  condescension 

Pring  down  drementous  applause, 
Und  dose  who  catch  de  nodion 

Grife  most  derriple  hooraws  ; 
Eshbecially  some  Amerigans 

Ash  vas  shtandin  near  de  door, 
Und  who  in  all  deir  leben  long 

Nefer  heard  so  moosh  sense  pcfore.) 

'•  Dese  ish  de  brincibles  I  holts, 

And  dose  in  vitch  I  run  : 
Dey  ish  fixed  firm  and  immutaple 

Ash  te  course  of  de  'ternal  sun  : 
Boot  if  you  ton't  abbrove  of  dem — 

Blease  nodice  vot  I  say — 
I  shall  only  pe  too  happy 

To  alder  dem  right  afay. 


50 


"  Und  unto  my  Demogratic  fricndtri 

I  vould  very  glearly  slitate — 
Since  dis  useless  mit  oop-gecleared  minds 

To  hold  a  long  depate — 
Dat  dere's  no  man  in  de  cidy 

Dat  sells  besser  liquor  ash  I, 
Und  I  shtand  de  treadts /ree-gradis 

Yhenefer  mine  friendts  ish  try. 


"■  Adjinem—m  de  ende — 

I  moost  mendion  do  you  all, 
Dat  a  dootzen  parrels  of  lager  bier 

Ish  a-gomin  to  dis  hall : 
Dere  ish  none  of  mine  own  barty  here, 

Boot  we'll  do  mitout  deir  helfs  ', 
Und  I  kess,  on  de  whole,  'twill  peshoost  so  goot, 

If  ve  trink  it  all  ourselfs." 


Soosh  drementous  up-loudation 

Pefore  was  nefer  seen, 
Ash  dey  shvored  dat  Copitan  Breitmann 

Vas  a  brick-pat,  and  no  sardine  ; 
Und  dey  trinked  demselfs  besoflPen, 

Sayin,  "■  Hope  you  wird  sookceed  !" — 
De  nexter  theil  will  pe  de  ent 

Of  dis  historisch  lied. 


VII.— The  Author  Asserts  the  Vast  Intellectual 
Superiority  of  Germans  to  Americans. 

Dere's  a  liddle  fact  in  hishdory 
Vich  few  liafe  oonderstand — 
Dat  de  Deutsclaers  are,  dejure, 
De  owners  of  dis  land  ; 
Und  I  brides  mineself  unspeakbarly 

Dat  I  foorst  make  be-known 
De  primordial  cause  dat  Columpus 
Vas  derivet  from  Cologne  ; 

For  ash  bis  name  vas  Colon, 

It  fisibly  does  sbine 
Dat  bis  elders  are  geboren  been 

In  Co-logne  on  der  Rhein  ; 
Und  Colonia  pein  a  colony, 

It  sebr  bemarkbar  ist 
Dat  Columbus  in  America 

Was  der  firster  colonist. 

Und  asb  Columbus  is  a  tofe, 

Id  is  wort  de  drople  to  mark 
Dat  a  bidgeon  foorsi  tiscofered  land 

A-T^lyin  from  de  ark ; 
Und  sbtill  wider — in  de  peginnin, 

Mitout  de  leastest  toubt, 
A  tofe  vas  vly  ofer  de  wassers 

Und  pring  de  vorldt  berout. 
(51) 


52 


Ash  mine  goot  oldt  teacher  der  Kreutzer 

To  me  tid  often  shbeak, 
De  mythus  of  name  reheats  idself 

(Vich  ve  see  in  his  Si/mholiJc)  ', 
So  also  de  name  America, 

If  YC  a  liddle  look, 
Vas  coom  from  de  oldt  King  Emerich 

In  de  Deutsche  Heldenhucli. 


Und  id  vas  from  dat  very  Ileldenhuch — 

How  voonderful  id  run  ! — 
Dat  I  shdole  de  '■'  Song  of  Hildebrand, 

Or  der  Vater  und  der  Son," 
Und  dishtripute  it  to  Breitmann, 

For  a  reason  vitch  now  ish  plain, 
Dat  dis  Sagen-Cyclus,  full-endet, 

Prino;  me  round  to  der  Hans  asrain  ! 


Dese  laws  of  un-endly  un-wigglin 

Ish  so  teep  und  broad  und  tall 
Dat  nopody  boot  a  Deutscher 

Have  a  het  to  versteh  dem  at  all  ; 
Und  should  I  write  mine  dinks  all  oud, 

I  ton't  peliefe,  indeed, 
Dat  1  mineself  vould  versteh  de  half 

Of  dis  here  Breitmannslied, 


53 


Asli  de  Hegel  say  of  his  system, 

Dat  only  von  mans  knew 
Vot  der  teufel  id  meandt,  und  he  could't  tell; 

Und  der  Jean  Paul  Ricliter  too, 
Who  said,  ''  Gott  knows  I  meant  somedings 

When  foorst  dis  buch  I  writ, 
Boot  Grott  only  wise  vot  de  buch  means  now, 

Vor  I  have  vergotten  it." 


And  all  of  dis  be-wises 

So  blain  ash  de  face  on  your  nose, 
Dat  der  Dcutscher  hafe  efen  more  intellects, 

Dan  he  himself  soopose  ; 
Und  his  tifFerence  mit  de  over-again  vorldt, 

Ash  I  really  do  soospect, 
Ish  dat  oder  volk  hafe  more  soopose, 

Und  lesser  intellect. 


Yet  ooprightly  I  gonfess  it — 

Mitout  ashkin  vhy  or  vhence — 
Dere  ish  also  dimes  vhen  Amerigans 

Hafe  ge-shown  sharp-pointed  sense  ; 
Und  a  fery  outsigned  example 

Of  genius  in  dis  line 
Vas  dishblayed  in  dis  elegdion 

Py  Mishder  Hiram  Twine. 


VIII— Showing  How  Mr.  Hiram  Twine 
"Played  off"  on  Smith. 

wBtm 

VIDE  LICET  :  Dere  vas  a  fillage 
Whose  vode  alone  vouldt  pe 
Apout  enoof  to  elegdt  a  man, 
Und  gife  a  mayority; 
So  de  von  who  couldt  scoop  dis  seddlement 

Vould  make  a  pully  hit ; 
Boot  dough  dey  vere  Dcutschers,  von  und  all, 
Dey  all  go  von  on  Schmit. 

Now  it  happenet  to  gome  to  bass 

Dat  in  dis  liddle  town 
De  Deutsch  vas  all  exshpegdin 

Dat  Mishder  Schmit  coom  down, 
His  brinciples  to  fore-setzen 

Und  his  idees  to  deach, 
(Dat  is,  fix  oop  de  brifate  pargains) 

Und  telifer  a  pooblic  sbeech. 

Now  Twine  vas  a  gyrotwistive  cuss, 

Ash  blainly  ish  peen  shown, 
Und  vas  alfays  an  out-findin 

Votefer  might  pe  known  ; 
Und  mit  some  of  his  circumswindles 

He  fix  de  matter  so 
Dat  he'd  pe  himself  at  dis  meetin 

And  see  how  dings  vas  go. 
(54) 


65 

Oh  shtraugely  in  dis  leben 

De  diogs  kits  vorked  apout  I 
Oh  voonderly  Fortuna 

Makes  toorn  us  insite  out  I 
Oh  sinkular  de  luck-wheel  rolls  I 

Dis  liddlc  meeding  dere 
Fixt  Twine  ad  perjjendiculuni — 

Shoost  suit  him  to  a  hair  ! 


Now  it  hoppenit  on  dis  efenin 

De  Deutschers,  von  und  all, 
Vere  avaitin  mit  impatience 

De  openin  of  de  ball ; 
Und  de  shates  of  nite  vere  fallin 

Und  de  shdars  begin  to  plink, 
Und  deyvish  dat  Schmit  vouldt  hoorry, 

For  d'vas  dime  to  dake  a  trink. 


Dey  hear  some  hoofs  a-dramplln, 

Und  dey  saw,  und  dinked  dey  knowed, 
Der  bretty  greature  coomin, 

On  his  horse  along  de  road  ; 
Und  ash  he  ride  town  in-ward 

De  likeness  vas  so  plain 
Dey  donnered  out,  "  Hooray  for  Schmit  I" 

Enough  to  make  it  rain. 


56 


Der  Twine  vas  shtart  like  plazes; 

Boot  oopshtarted  too  his  wit, 
Und  he  dinks,  "  Great  Turnips  !  what  if  I 

Could  bass  for  Colonel  Schmit  ? 
Gaul  dern  my  heels  !     Til  do  it, 

Und  go  the  total  swine  I 
Oh,  Soap-balls  !  what  a  chance  I"  said  dis 

Dissembulatin  Twine. 

Den    'twas    "  Willkomm  I  willkomm,  Mishder 
Schmit !" 

Ringsroom  on  efery  site  ; 
Und  "  First-rate  !     How  dy-do  yourself?" 

Der  Hiram  Twine  replied. 
Dey  ashk  him,  "■  Come  und  dake  a  trink  ?" 

But  dey  find  it  mighdy  queer 
Ven  Twine  informs  dem  none  boot  hogs 

Vould  trink  dat  shtinkin  bier  ; 

Dat  all  lager  vas  nodings  boot  boison  ; 

Und  ash  for  Sherman  wein, 
He  dinks  it  vas  erfounden 

Exshbressly  for  Sherman  schwein  ; 
Dat  he  himself  vas  a  demperanceler — • 

Dat  he  gloria  in  de  name  ; 
Und  atfisedem  all,  for  tecency's  sake, 

To  2:0  und  do  de  same. 


57 

Dese  bemarks  among  de  Deutscliers 

Vere  apout  ash  veil  receife 
Ash  a  cats  in  a  game  of  den-bins, 

Ash  you  may  of  coorsc  peliefe  : 
Dc  heat  of  de  reception 

Vent  down  a  dootzen  tegrees 
Und  in  place  of  hurraws  dere  vas  only  heardt 

Dc  rooslin  of  de  drees. 

Und  so  in  solemn  stille 

Dey  scorched  him  to  de  hall, 
Vhere  he  maket  de  oradion 

Vitch  vas  so  moosh  to  blcase  dem  all  ; 
Und  dis  vay  he  pegin  it  : 

"  Pefore  I  furder  go, 
I  vish  dat  my  obinions 

You  puddin-het  Dootch  should  know. 

"Und  ere  I  norate  to  you, 

I  think  it  only  fair 
^Ye  should  oonderstand  each  other 

Prezaetly,  chunk  and  square. 
Derc  are  boints  on  vhich  ve  tisagrec, 

And  I  will  plank  de  facts— 
I  don't  go  round  slanganderia 

My  friendts  pehind  dcir  packs. 


58 


"  So  I  beg  you  dakc  it  easy 

If  on  cle  raw  I  touch, 
Vhen  I  say  I  can't  apidc  clc  sound 

Of  your  groontin,  shi-shing  Dutch. 
Should  I  in  the  Legisladure 

As  your  slumguUion  shtand, 
I'll  have  a  bill  forbidding  Dutch 

Troo  all  dis  'vcrsal  land. 


"Should  a  husband  talk  it  to  his  frau, 

To  deaf  he  should  pe  led  ; 
If  a  mutter  breat'  it  to  her  shild, 

I'd  bunch  her  in  do  head  ; 
Und  I'm  sure  dat  none  vill  atfocatc 

Ids  use  in  public  schools, 
Oonless  dey're  pcastly,  nashdy,  prutal, 

Sauerkraut-eatin  vools. 


Here  Mishder  Twine,  to  gadder  breat, 

Shoost  make  a  liddle  pause, 
Und  see  sechs  hundert  gapin  eyes, 

Sechs  hundert  shdarin  chaws, 
Dey  shtanden  erstarrt  like  frozen  ; 

Von  faindly  dried  to  hiss; 
Und  von  set  :  *'  Ish  it  shleeps  I'm  treamin  ? 

Gottausend!  vat  ish  dis  ?" 


69 


Twine  keptet  von  eye  on  de  vindow, 

Boot  poldly  went  abet: 
"  Of  your  oder  sbtinkin  liobits 

No  vordt  needt  bier  pe  set. 
Shtop  goozlin  bier — sbtop  sbmokin  bipcs- 

Shtop  rootin  in  de  mire  ; 
Und  sboost  un-DiUchifi/  yourselfs  : 

Dat's  all  dat  I  require." 

Und  denn  dere  coomed  a  sblndy 

Asli  if  de  sbky  bat  trop : 
"  Trow  bim  mit  ecks,  py  doonder  ! 

Go  sblog  bim  on  de  kop  ! 
Hei!     Sboot  bim  mit  a  powic-knifes  ; 

Go  for  bim,  gauz  and  gar  ! 
Sboost  tar  bim  mit  some  fedders  I 

Led's  fedder  bim  mit  tar!" 

Soocb  a  teufel's  row  of  furie 

Vas  nefer  oop-kickt  before : 
Soom  roosb  to  ou-climb  de  blatform — 

Soom  boory  to  fasten  te  toor  : 
Yon  Teller  vired  bis  refolfer, 

Boot  de  pullet  missed  ber  mark: 
Sbe  coot  de  cort  of  de  sbandelier  : 

It  veil,  und  de  ball  vas  tark! 


60 


Oh  veil  was  it  for  Hiram  Twine 

Datnimply  lie  couldt  shoomp; 
Und  veil  dat  he  light  ou  a  misthauf, 

U nd  nefer  feel  de  boomp ; 
Und  veil  for  him  dat  his  goot  cray  horse 

Shtood  sattlcd  shoost  outside ; 
Und  veil  dat  in  an  augenblick 

He  vas  off  on  a  teufel's  ride. 


Bang  I  bang  !  de  sharp  pistolen  shots 

Yent  pipin  py  his  car, 
Boot  he  tortled  oop  de  barrick  road 

Like  any  mountain  deer  : 
Dey  trowed  der  Hiram  Twine  mit  shteins, 

But  dey  only  could  be-mark 
A'on  climpse  of  his  vhite  obercoadt, 

Und  a  clotterin  in  de  tark. 


So  dey  all  versembled  togeder. 

Bin  ander  to  sprechen  mit, 
Und  allow  dat  sooch  a  rede 

Dey  nefer  exshpegd  from  Schmit — 
Dat  he  vas  a  foorst-glass  plaekguard, 

And  so  pig  a  Lump  ash  ran  ; 
So,  nemine  contradicente, 

Dey  vented  for  Breitemann. 


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Und  'twas  annerthalb  yar  dereafter 

Before  der  Schmit  vas  know 
Yot  maket  dis  rural  fillage 

Go  pack  oopon  him  so  ; 
Und  he  schvored  at  de  Dootch  more  schlimmer 

Ash  Hiram  Twine  had  tone. 
Nota  hene:  He  tid  it  in  earnesht, 

Vhile  der  Hiram's  vas  pusiness  fun. 

Boot  vhen  Breitmann  heard  de  shdory 

How  de  fillage  hat  peen  dricked, 
He  shvorc  bci  Leib  und  Leben 

He'd  rader  hafe  been  licked 
Dan  pe  helpet  bei  soosh  shumgoozlin  ; 

Und  'twas  petter  to  pe  a  schwein 
Dan  aschwindlin  honeyfooglin  shnake. 

Like  dat  lyin  Yankee  Twine. 

Und  pegot  so  heafy  disgoosted 

Mit  de  boledicks  of  dis  land 
Dat  his  friendts  couldn't  barely  keep  him 

From  trowinoop  his  hand,  [poot ; 

Vhen  he  belt  shtraidt  flush,  mit  an  ace  in  his 

Vich  phrase  ish  all  de  same, 
In  de  science  of  de  pokerology, 

Ash  if  he  ffot  de  "•ame. 


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So  Breitmann  cot  elegtet, 

Py  vollowin  de  vay 
Dey  manage  de  elegdions 

Unto  dis  fery  day  ; 
Vitcli  sliows  de  Deutsch  DummcJirlicJikeu, 

Also  de  Yankee  "  wit :" 
Das  ist  das  Abenteuer 

How  Breitmann  lick  dor  Sclimlt 


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"The  poem,  a  9  full  of  h^e   and  ^^n,_^^^^^^^^^^  K.r^m^  Star. 
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lu  a  ve-y  copious  ^"i^, /^^''''^^'.^.^Jt  ^^^  i'.^^^^s  ,me  r.^  th.  most  thoroughly 

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laugh  from  every  -^'^-l^^;;t:::,-£^2^^\s  drawn  with  much  sat- 
-  In  Haas  Breitmann   the  he. o  of  the  baUa is    t^^_ .cteri.tics  are  sharply  and  clearly 
irical  force  and  freshnes,.     1  '^'' P-;^.^^7„i' ,  "„7  ,,, „t  is  q 'lite  compatible  with  the  exist-     j 
defined,  the  trace,  of  d'-eamj  seiuim^ntali  m  t^i_a^^^^  i  Pjieated.     The  typical    ! 

ence  of  a  very  cjarse  materialism  in  prac  ice  aieej-  sketched  to  the  life  by 
Germati,  as  he  is  <^f''''f};if^^l,\\^J^'^;'ZTthl^^^^^^  should  have  attained 

Mr.  L3land  wUh  not  a  Uttle  d  o  1  ''-J'"  ^^^•^^^g'l^Xle.  Even  here  they  cannot  fail  to 
a  wide  popularity  \^  .^^'\''lXJ'lu>^M^^^^  known  in  England  for  his 

be  widely  ap.i-eciatei.M.  LeW^.  alr^aay  j  j^^^orous  poetry  he  may 

translation  of  Heiae^sB<c^/.d^;i;^^^^^  ^^^^  ^^  ^^^^  ^^^^   ^^^.^^^^  g,,,,i  ,,  the 

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